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Originally Posted by Morphy
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What's the advantage of AVC over Xvid? Just curious.
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AVC is what Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are using for video - it allows for a far better compression rate than XviD or DivX (or MPEG-2 for that matter, which is used on DVDs).... but at the cost of more CPU power. In other words, a 170MB h.264 file will outdo a 170MB DivX or XviD file in terms of video quality, because the h.264 holds more data and thus lets you either have higher-resolution video, better picture quality, or both... but you need a beefier CPU to handle the calculations required for the decoding. Or you could have that same video quality as the DivX file in something half the size... but again, it takes more processor time to unpack it afterwards.